Reply with attachment included

Agreed and cannot figure out the reason why such a great feature needed to be retrieved. I hope Microsoft or our team whoever has done it can explain any good reason or restore it.

There was an add-on that I have used for quite some time in Outlook that was named Reply with Attachment, but just in the last few weeks, I noticed it is now grayed out and can no longer be used. It is easier/faster to use this feature instead of copying and pasting.

The biggest problem with this is that it requires whoever is receiving to have to open an entirely new email chain as an attachment and then click into the original attachments.

I know that the extra ~2 seconds to add the original recipients is negligible by itself. The issue is that when you compound it by ~100 emails a day it turns into hours by the end of the year and that is not including the extra work if you forget an attachment or forget to add 1 recipient. There should be a way to just simply forward with attachments or reply/reply all with attachments. This should be a quality-of-life update. Sure, there are work arounds, but we are trying to be more efficient.

There is a way to do this, I haven't gone and read the history here and maybe this isn't a good option for most because of the format of the received emails, here are the steps to include the attachment on a reply email in outlook:

File\Options\Mail\Reply and forward settings\ When replying to a message: Attach original message

another way

Obviously, this is a common issue for many, I often "Reply to All" with an attachment, adding more recipients. Until there is a MS fix, I found the easiest and quickest way to add an attachment, from the original message, right-click and copy the attachment (you can also choose this from the dropdown to the right of the attachment), I paste it in the body of the replay email and add additional recipients needing the attachment. It's not even two seconds of time to do this.

on forwarding its always included with these settings,

File\Options\Mail\Reply and forward settings\when forwarding | included and indent original message

I understand the reasoning. (On one hand the person that just sent you an attachment shouldn't need it back. - This saves network resources.!)

But the other comments here point out the more obvious need. There is often a need to add others to the Email thread that also need to see the attachments! Please provide this option!